1.   The occultist, Dion Fortune, wrote that the best place to wake the old gods is on chalk.

2.   The old gods of labor seemed to be on his side.

3.   Under her feet the old gods were busily dying into a new life.

4.   Worship of the old gods still continues in remote areas of the country.

5.   As soon as he died, the old gods were reinstated by Tutankhamen.

6.   Disputes over the designation of Pluto, named for the dirty old god of death and the underworld, seem just as silly.

7.   The ancient Romans even ascribed aphrodisiac properties to arugula, ritually planting it at the base of statues of Priapus, the old Greek god of male procreative power.

8.   The old gods and goddesses were no better.

9.   The old gods were gradually forgotten, and the people became first Christian, then Muslim, as they remain mostly today.

10.   The old gods were restored and the royal court was moved back to Memphis and Thebes.